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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2016
General Electric Technology Gmbh, Baden, CH;
Robin Gupta, Stafford, GB;
Robert Stephen Whitehouse, Stafford, GB;
Carl David Barker, Staffordshire, GB;
General Electric Technology GmbH, Baden, CH;
Abstract
There is provided an electrical assembly for use in a power transmission network. The electrical assembly includes a converter including terminals for connection to an electrical network, where the first terminal is a DC terminal. The assembly also includes a DC power transmission medium connected to the DC terminal, and a circuit interruption device including switching element(s) and an energy absorption element, each switching element being switchable to divert a flow of current in the DC power transmission medium through the energy absorption element in order to reduce the flow of current in the DC power transmission medium; The assembly also includes a converter control unit programmed to operate the converter to control a DC voltage at the DC terminal in a leakage current reduction mode to control a voltage across the energy absorption element.